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...seemed to signal a shift in mood late last week at a special meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee, when he called for a "brave new turn" and the "courage to break stereotypes" in dealing with worker grievances. Jaruzelski's remarks followed a television address by General Czeslaw Kiszczak, the Interior Minister, who offered to open talks with representatives of "different social groups" to end the unrest. While there was speculation that the Kiszczak statement hinted at possible talks with Solidarity for the first time since 1981, the offer was greeted with skepticism by Poles, who have heard similar...
...announcement came in the form of an interview with General Czeslaw Kiszczak, the Minister of Internal Affairs, who cited a "visible improvement of public order" and a "waning social response to attempts at conducting clandestine activity" as justification for the amnesty. Translation: the Jaruzelski government thinks public support for the outlawed Solidarity trade- union movement has weakened...
...almost the same time, however, Kiszczak announced that some 3,000 opposition activists had been interrogated by police. The aim, he said, was "to convince the people that their clandestine activities made no sense. We told them, 'Enough of this game.' " No one was arrested, but the questioning could have a chilling effect. Kiszczak admitted that the amnesty had taken account of the "humanitarian intention" of the Roman Catholic Church after Poland's bishops had appealed for release of political prisoners and constitutional guarantees of basic freedoms. With Solidarity effectively thwarted, and many members of the opposition being grilled about...
...publicly offered fellow Poles an unprecedented glimpse into the workings of the country's secret police and defused, at least temporarily, the explosive anger over Popieluszko's death. There is speculation that the murder was engineered by government hard-liners to embarrass Jaruzelski and his Interior Minister, General Czeslaw Kiszczak. But the carefully controlled trial left many unanswered questions and the pervasive feeling that the authorities may have protected high-ranking officials from being implicated in the killing. Some Poles believed that - Piotrowski deserved the death penalty, and there was widespread skepticism that the four men would be made...
There was widespread speculation that the kidnaping and murder had been carefully planned by hard-liners to discredit Jaruzelski and his Interior Minister, General Czeslaw Kiszczak. For many Poles the pieces of the puzzle seemed to fit together too neatly. Secret Police Captain Grzegorz Piotrowski, the apparent ringleader of the kidnapers, was identified last week as an officer in the Interior Ministry section that monitors the activities of religious groups in Poland. His two lieutenants were recognized almost immediately by Popieluszko's driver, who had noticed the secret policemen following him before the kidnaping. Piotrowski and his conspirators apparently...